March 12, 2025

Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 6:53 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 45 minutes The Blizzard of 1888 raged region wide on this date. A general fall of 2 to 4 feet of snow was whipped by north to northeast gales into snow drifts of 10 to 15 feet, while temperatures headed...

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Today: The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, sparkles in the south as twilight fades by 8 o’clock, sliding into the southwest through the course of the evening, one of the first stars out as twilight fades. Its brilliance is due, in part to its relative...

March 11, 2025

Sunrise: 7:10 AM Sunset: 6:51 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 41 minutes The first heavy rains and thawing temperatures began the floods of 1936 on this date. Over 2 inches fell through most of northern New England, including 3.25 inches in Cavendish. Deep snow...

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Today: The nearly Full Moon rises out of the early evening dusk at around 5:45 PM. Rising with it, but not emerging, until about an hour later, is the constellation Leo, which appears just above the Moon. Of the stars in Leo, the one closest to the Moon is the...

March 10, 2025

Sunrise: 7:12 AM Sunset: 6:50 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 38 minutes Heavy, wet snow concentrated across the higher elevations and eastern VT into NH from the 10th to the 11th last year, in 2024. After temperatures climbed to the 50s, and thawing rains created...